Gal: A True Life
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1994). Hardcover. First edition. 275pp. Introduction by Josephine Humphries. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Memoir of a troubled girlhood in South Carolina. More
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Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? The People of Johns Island, South Carolina – Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs
Athens: University of Georgia Press, (1994). Softcover. First edition, wrappered issue. Photographed by Robert Yellin. Preface by Alan Lomax. Small quarto. 191pp. Wraps rubbed, spine ends and corners with small bumps, very good. More
Crisis of Fear: Secession In South Carolina
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1970). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 315pp. Illustrated. Brown cloth gilt. Owner name on front pastedown and tiniest foredge stain else fine, lacking the dust jacket. More
"A Peculiar People": Slave Religion and Community-Culture Among the Gullahs
New York: New York University Press, 1988. Hardcover. First edition. 417pp. A faint dampstain on the bottom page corner and light spotting on the page edges thus very good in a near fine dust jacket with slight edgewear. Inscribed by the author. More
Face of an Island: Leigh Richmond Miner's Photographs of Saint Helena Island
(Columbia, South Carolina): The R. L. Bryan Company, 1970. Hardcover. First edition. Square quarto. Measuring 12¼" x 12½". Foreword by James L. Felder. Owner name in a young hand on front fly, two page spreads with a bit of modest soiling (not affecting the images), near fine in a worn..... More
Reminiscences of Sea Island Heritage: Legacy of Freedmen on St. Helena Island
Orangeburg, South Carolina: Sandlapper Publishing, (1987). Hardcover. Second edition. Quarto. 103, [13]pp. Illustrated from photographs. A little foxing on the page edges, else about fine in about fine dust jacket. More
Charles Morton, or The Young Patriot. A Tale of the American Revolution
New York: Dayton & Newman, 1843. Hardcover. First edition. 24mo. Purple cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Neat contemporary pencil owner name, slight rubbed spot on the front board, and subtle sunning at the spine, near fine. Fiction for young adults. Mary S.B. Dana Schindler (1810-1883) was born in Beaufort..... More
Pictorial Life of General Marion; Embracing Anecdotes Illustrative of His Character
Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1847. Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. 208pp. Embellished with engravings. Brown illustrated cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Contemporary gift inscription (To Mary Kay from her affectionate brother James A. Kay. Dec. 25th 1847", modest foxing throughout, else a lovely very near fine copy of this..... More
South Carolina: Annals of Pride and Protest
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1960). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 337pp. Slight sunning at the crown, else near fine in modestly age-toned and lightly edgeworn, very good dust jacket. A handsome copy. More
Memories of Ninety Six
New York: Vantage Press, (1992). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. vii, 71, [1] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket. Vanity-published autobiography of growing up with a foster family in rural 1930s South Carolina. Hance would go on to serve in WWII and work as a pastor and school..... More
The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina Rebels Against Slavery
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Hardcover. First edition. 479pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Owner name on the front free endpaper else fine in a near fine dust jacket with edgewear. More
The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Rebels Against Slavery
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Hardcover. First edition. xiv, 479pp. Ex-library with the usual treatment, a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. More
Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1981). Hardcover. First edition. 199pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket with slight edgewear. Inscribed by the author to noted scholar of African-American history Graham Hodges. More
Insurrection in South Carolina. The Turbulent World of Denmark Vesey
Yellow Springs, Ohio: Antioch Press, 1964. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 294pp. Fine in about fine dust jacket, with very subtle toning at the spine. A very nice copy. More
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[Photograph]: Cart Man [African-American Man with Ox and Cart]
Aiken, South Carolina: J. A. Palmer, [circa 1880?]. Unbound. Mounted albumen photograph. Images measures approximately 7½" x 4½", mounted to slightly larger card stock. Partially printed photographer's label verso, with the printed title (or series name?) "Carts" and image number ("803") in manuscript. Image with very light surface wear, a...... More
Black April
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1927). Hardcover. First edition, first state with "ducks quacked" on page 17. Cloth modestly soiled, spine ends and corners lightly worn and bumped, gilt tarnished, else very good lacking the dust jacket. A novel about Gullah society in South Carolina by a white writer, and based..... More
Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture
Brookgreen, S.C. Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1943. Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. xlvii, 510pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Front cover with stains at the crown, spotting on the spine as well as the board and page edges, foxing on the first couple pages, very good. More
Profile in Black and White: A Frank Portrait of South Carolina
Washington, D.C. Public Affairs Press, (1958). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. vii, 214pp. Owner name penned on front pastedown, page edges soiled, spine ends and corners bumped, else very good lacking the dust jacket. More
The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, (2000). Softcover. First edition, wrappered issue. 362pp. A fine copy. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "September 2017 To Graham with deepest appreciation Manisha". Recipient is Graham Hodges the prolific and important author or editor of many important books on..... More
Poems
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. iv, 130, 16 (ads) pp. Publisher's elaborately blindstamped brown cloth with spine titled in gilt. Owner name on the front blank, binding with slight loss at the corners and spine ends, preliminary leaves very lightly foxed and ad leaves in the..... More
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[Offprint]: The Making of a Slave Conspiracy: Parts I and II
Williamsburg: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, (2002). Softcover. First collected edition. Two parts bound in one. Octavo. 914-976; 136-202pp. Wrappers a bit creased and soiled, very good or better. Inscribed to noted scholar of African-American history Graham Hodges by contributor Douglas R. Egerton on the first page..... More
The Operation of the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina
New York: Russell & Russell, (1970). Hardcover. Reissue (first published in 1916). Octavo. 97pp. Fine in navy blue cloth gilt, without jacket (if issued). More
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